Rosa Parks con Judith Butler: performatividad individual y acción colectiva

Pablo Pérez Navarro

doi:10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.09

Authors

Pablo Pérez Navarro Centro de Estudios Sociales Universidad de Coimbra

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3989/isegoria.2017.056.09

Keywords:

Performativity, theatricality, queer activism, social protest, collective action

Abstract

This paper relies on two opposite temporal directions. In the first one, I draw on black and latino ball culture to reread the historical refusal of Rosa Parks to give up her seat on the bus. The second one outlines a queer genealogy of the uses of theatricality in contemporary forms of urban activism. Drawing on the encounter between both temporal directions and engaging in a dialogue with Judith Butler’s recent work I argue for taking into account the performative dimension of individual interventions in the space of the protest in order to understand the mobilizing power of collective action.

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